Overview
Essential reading for all those concerned with contemporary theorizing of organization, this important and thought-provoking volume explores the implications of postmodernist//poststructuralist thinking for organizations and organizational analysis. The book introduces the concepts underpinning a postmodern organizational analysis, contrasting modern and postmodern forms of explanation and addressing the distinctions between postmodernity and postmodernism. Succeeding chapters then examine and assess the interplay of major postmodernist themes - such as deconstruction, desire, difference, pluralism and relativism - with key topics of organizational analysis and research. The final section is one of critique, as its authors
- | Author: John Hassard
- | Publisher: Sage Publications
- | Publication Date: Sep 05, 2000
- | Number of Pages: 256 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 080398880X
- | ISBN-13: 9780803988804
